I am not looking for books about *why* one would become a vegetarian, because I’ve already read lots about that. And I’m not so much looking for cookbooks. What I need is a book that explains how to eat a balanced vegetarian diet and avoid becoming deficient in nutrients that are normally obtained from eating meat.
Thanks!
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This is a good book which I have myself You can sometimes find it at public libraries. It is exactly what you are looking for.
http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Vegetarian-Complete-Adopting-Healthy/dp/1570670137
It is virtually impossible to be deficient in the nutrients meat contains on a vegetarian diet. You can survive on a diet of raw broccoli (which contains more protein than a steak does) and still receive adequate (or even too much) protein, calcium, and zinc.
Society’s been so brainwashed by the mass media and advertising from the meat and dairy industry, that they honestly don’t know what to believe anymore. Most people will conclude that broccoli has no protein in it and refuse to hear the other side as a means of justifying their poor diet (the American diet) as “healthy”, but I guess they never stopped to think about where broccoli gets it’s calories from. Is it fat like an avocad? or carbohydrates like a potato?
It is protein. And so are carrots, spinach (which is also rich in calcium, iron, zinc, and potassium), and every leafy green vegetable out there. I wonder how elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and gorillas some of the largest and strongest living mammals today, yet they eat an entirely [RAW] plant-based diet.
As a Nutrition and Dietetics major currently working for my M.D., I spend most of my job examining the building blocks of unrefined plant (fruits, vegetables, and grains) foods and planning diets for others, and guarantee you that you needn’t worry about being deficient in any thing.
Eating 100 calories worth of steak only gives you about 7 grams of protein, and not to mention numerous bad toxins, including cholesterol, saturated fat, (and likely additives and preservatives if it isn’t organic). Eating 100 calories worth of broccoli is much healthier, more filling since it is much more dense in nutrients, and will provide with numerous beneficial nutrients, vitamins, and phytochemicals, which reduce your risk of various diseases from cancers to heart disease.
You want to read some great books about being healthy on a vegetarian diet. Save yourself money and check the following books out of your nearest public library:
“Eat to Live” and “Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right” by Joel Fuhrman, M.D
“The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention: Evidence Supporting the New Four Food Groups” by Kerrie Saunders, Ph.D
“Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple” by Michael Klaper, M.D.
“Food for Life: How the New Four Food Groups Can Save Your Life” by Neal Barnard, M.D.
I recommend the websites http://www.goveg.com/healthConcerns.asp
http://www.drfuhrman.com
http://www.pcrm.org (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
http://www.vrg.org (Vegetarian Resource Group)
and http://www.vegsource.com
Also, I strongly encourage to watch to listen to this episode of Go Vegan Radio with Bob Linden:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsCJEXULUnk
The guest is Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
One that I liked when I was starting out was “Vegetables Rock!: A Complete Guide for the Teenage Vegetarian,” but I don’t know how helpful this will be to you.